https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:09:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2299075 Sat, 31 Dec 2022 19:50:26 +0000 Anonymous 2299075@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>:( </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2299022 Sat, 31 Dec 2022 13:44:02 +0000 April 2299022@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Bijou, thank you!&nbsp; I love learning how fashion and music interact.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298982 Sat, 31 Dec 2022 02:12:38 +0000 Sloper 2298982@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Very sad to hear. &nbsp;NY Times has a good visual retrospective - sorry I don’t have the link at hand. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298976 Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:36:49 +0000 UmmLila (Lisa) 2298976@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh I loved punk fashion and her attitude. </p> <p>Here’s a quote from a tribute in Bazaar that I find worthy:<br /> “ She had an obsessive, magic relationship with the history of fashion, taking up familiar costumes with all their semiotic hooha, and lampooning them into commentary on the way we see ourselves, and doggedly insisting that no article of clothing has some “fixed” meaning we all share. Instead, her work suggested, a designer’s job is to constantly add to, and most of all complicate, our presumptions about style and identity and clothes, reinterpreting and recontextualizing garments. This is also what made her a true original: she raged against the status quo while also delighting in the beauty of historic costume. And she could do this with delighted tension because she seemed not to view the creation of art and clothing as the tug between creating something new and upholding tradition. Instead, she ran at what seemed nonnegotiable—bustles, corsets, frock coats, and even what words were appropriate to put on a T-shirt—with sizzling sticks of dynamite, and applied them with a couturier’s touch.” </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298874 Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:26:37 +0000 Bijou 2298874@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>April, VW’s husband, Malcolm McClaren was the Sex Pistol’s manager. VW dressed the band and she and Malcolm had an eye for talent. Chrissy Hynde once worked in VW’s store which was called Sex. In many respects the Sex Pistols were a product of VW’s and Malcolm’s vision which went beyond making fashion. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298872 Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:14:49 +0000 April 2298872@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Can someone remind me of the connection between the Sex Pistols and VW?&nbsp; When I rewatched Sid and Nancy recently, I vaguely recall someone on YLF knowing a few details about this.&nbsp; Something that also involved Chrissie Hynde?</p> <p>Yes, RIP Ms. Westwood.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298830 Fri, 30 Dec 2022 03:44:07 +0000 Echo 2298830@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, what a loss. Loved her and her style. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298825 Fri, 30 Dec 2022 02:44:12 +0000 Jaime 2298825@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, just saw this too. A life well lived. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298811 Fri, 30 Dec 2022 01:52:27 +0000 Dee 2298811@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes a true revolutionary and style icon of fashion. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298810 Fri, 30 Dec 2022 01:49:52 +0000 Roberta 2298810@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The NYT has a great sideshow of her work:<br /> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/style/vivienne-westwood-a-lifetime-of-looks.html?unlocked_article_code=n23wW1eYnZZgIQhoYUVBkP-aKLF18nGH5x4LBhL6GeY5w6lt6nBs6XzOpS1ftjlWEpEOX3KhBvVGO5e5zFgjnCVlbMleO1ayYLFN83gPH8vzNMATTT6k0Ibgpw7veYgsDvdWvF6QnBbvjx4TG0GXlN18yuOitESWHMf1OtmSp5g9_NjbZa3oe0MOuxiDk275-9Pif1hYyrxbOuh4O8JcTLNm-mM3BcaJfvSTfs1saNPKgiPJ1oJMlB1hhxYlH7QfBzD3aDW6f_Ip2Eh1R10NKeSSNMlhU_3pfkXNFGVDJZZ0wR1KeOiUYa9ATOAdSsK4IGBN5oQY2viGstIyVdfFsFC7Zv9LJ9prhMte_oM&#038;smid=share-url" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/1.....=share-url</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298807 Fri, 30 Dec 2022 01:41:04 +0000 Roberta 2298807@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a loss! A fantastic sense of color and structure. And plaid! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298806 Fri, 30 Dec 2022 01:37:21 +0000 rachylou 2298806@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Noooooo! I will really miss her inspiration. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298779 Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:03:04 +0000 kkards 2298779@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A true visionary. &nbsp;She will be missed </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298775 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 23:18:08 +0000 Isabel 2298775@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p> &nbsp; &nbsp; A pioneer and an OG . </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298772 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 23:04:06 +0000 Carla 2298772@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no! &nbsp;One of my very favourites…. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298768 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:48:52 +0000 judy 2298768@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, just finding this out now.&nbsp; She was a force of nature! </p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://youtu.be/s-s-HNePiV8">https://youtu.be/s-s-HNePiV8</a>&nbsp;This is a good documentary about her.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298767 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:46:57 +0000 Suz 2298767@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, no -- that is sad news, Janet. She was an incredible designer.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/rip-vivienne-westwood#post-2298764 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:30:13 +0000 Janet 2298764@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64122181.amp" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64122181.amp</a></p> <p>:-( I always admired her spirit and fearlessness. </p>